December 5-7, 2024

Florida International University, Miami, Florida USA

Time: Dec 6, 2024 08:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Welcome to the 2024 Health and Environmental Perspectives of Metals and Drugs: a Festschrift Symposium Honoring the Career of Barry Philip Rosen

The Symposium Organizers are grateful to the Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine and the College of Arts, Sciences and Education for co-sponsorship and financial support.

Metals, both essential or toxic, are key players in normal human physiology, morbidity, and mortality. They affect crucial biological processes associated with onset, progression, and exacerbation of diseases. They play crucial roles across a range of conditions, including cardiovascular, respiratory, and neurological diseases, diabetes and cancer. One focus of the presentations will be on genetic diseases that affect metal homeostasis. The relationship between changes in metal handling during aging, systemic and organ-specific inflammation, oxidative stress, and their implications for health will be covered in this symposium.

Overall, topics of this symposium will range from research in various fields, such as mechanisms of biotransformation of biometals and trace elements; roles of essential and environmental biometals and their relationship to human health, from population-level impacts to the development of diagnostics and therapeutics; their impact on ecosystems, and sustainable solutions, and the latest transformative technologies shaping the future of biometal research.

 Top: Barry Rosen, Joel Weiner, Leon Hepple and Ed Berger, Cornell University, 1970

Bottom:  Rosen group, Wayne State Medical School, Christmas 2003

Top: Rosen 70^th Birthday Festschrift Symposium, Xiamen, China, 2014

Bottom: Rosen group, Florida International University, 2018

A primary focus of this symposium is to highlight the distinguished career and outstanding achievements of Barry Philip Rosen over his half-century of bimetals research. Barry Rosen is currently Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. He received his B.S. in biology from Trinity College in 1965 and Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Connecticut in 1969, followed by a Public Health Service Fellowship in the laboratory of Leon Heppel at Cornell University. He next joined the Department of Biological Chemistry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1972, where he went from Assistant to Full Professor.  He moved to Wayne State University School of Medicine in 1987, where he assumed the position of Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He retired from Wayne State University in 2009 as Distinguished Professor Emeritus. He joined the newly founded Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine in 2009 as Associate Dean for Basic Science Research until 2016, when he was appointed Distinguished University Professor. Rosen was a Visiting Professor in both the Department of Microbiology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan and the Department of Physiology, Yale University Medical School from 1979-1981. He has nearly 400 publications and numerous awards, including Basil O'Connor Award from the March of Dimes, Maryland Distinguished Young Scientist Award, Josiah Macy, Jr. Faculty Scholar Award and FIU Top Scholar Award. Dr. Rosen has been continuously funded by NIH and NSF since 1972. He was first awarded an NIH R01 grant in 1984 for his arsenic research project. This project has been continuously funded for 40 years as a R01, NIH MERIT Award and currently as an NIH MIRA until 2025, putting it within the top 100 longest continuously funded projects by NIH. He has six patents and is a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors. He has been on many grant panels including NIH study sections and NSF panels and served on numerous editorial boards including the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Bacteriology and Microbiological Reviews. He was elected President of the Association of Medical and Graduate Departments of Biochemistry and is an elected fellow of the American Academy for Microbiology (ASM) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dr. Rosen credits his collaborators with his success. They provided ideas, reagents and, most importantly, the people who did the actual research. He trained 22 doctoral students, 55 postdoctoral associates and multiple visiting scholars who made the real discoveries, many of whom are participating in this symposium.

Venue

MARC Pavilion, Florida International University

Accommodations

Pullman, Miami International Airport

Address: Address: 5800 Waterford District Dr, Miami, FL 33126

Phone: (305) 264-4888

A block of rooms has been booked for conferences attendees and guests. A standard room at $189 and $25 parking per day is guaranteed.